18 Nonfiction Reading Prompts - hosted by seaglass

Math / Science
Read a book about math or science. A dive into a particular subject or field, a biography, etc.
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

The Rise and Fall

Steve Brusatte

404 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, T.J. Mitchell

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

Judy Melinek, T.J. Mitchell

258 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science dark informative fast-paced
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

9 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York

Stacy Horn

284 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad slow-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

535 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography business history true crime dark informative medium-paced
The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum

The Poison Squad

Deborah Blum

11 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics science challenging informative slow-paced
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

303 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark funny informative medium-paced
Wilding by Isabella Tree

Wilding

Isabella Tree

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir nature informative slow-paced
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O'Neil

259 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction mathematics politics science technology challenging informative medium-paced
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction science true crime dark mysterious reflective medium-paced